{"id":492,"date":"2012-04-15T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T23:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2012-04-15T19:58:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T23:58:43","slug":"nascar-2012-race-7-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/nascar-2012-race-7-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR 2012 – Race 7 – Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Night racing in Texas<\/a>. The clouds were ominous, but the weather wasn’t expected until after midnight. The race was typical Texas. There were lots of long, green-flag runs, and not much else. In the end, it seems Jimmie Johnson just lost concentration.<\/p>\n

Greg Biffle had a plan – he always does, but I don’t think his plan made the difference in the end. Jimmie led for a long time. Biffle made a pass, not unexpected. The pass setup a potentially exciting finish. Unfortunately, Jimmie scraped the wall and limped to the finish leaving Biffle without challenge. Ho Hum. So Biffle won.<\/p>\n

The announcers mentioned that Biffle is complaining that’s he’s not getting enough coverage as the points leader. You know, someone ought to mention to Biffle that points mean a lot, but on television personality counts for a lot also. He’s a bit lacking in that department. So while he many get a lot of mentions, NO ONE wants to turn off\/anaesthetize a huge chunk of the audience by allowing him to ramble on and on about his self-proclaimed greatness, this early in the season.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently Stenhouse won the Nationwide race. I fell asleep on that one.<\/p>\n

In more exciting racing news Kasey Kahne won the premier Truck Race at Rockingham Speedway<\/a>. The race was a fun and Nelson Piquet Jr.’s mistake in the pits was a bummer.<\/p>\n

Next week: Kansas
\nI expect this race to be more of the same. That race is only rarely interesting. It seems the actual on-track action has gotten quite boring at a lot more tracks since the removal of the wing and the re-introduction of the spoiler. The drivers complained about the debris cautions, but at least they break up the monotony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Night racing in Texas. The clouds were ominous, but the weather wasn’t expected until after midnight. The race was typical Texas. There were lots of long, green-flag runs, and not much else. In the end, it seems Jimmie Johnson just lost concentration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}